WALLA WALLA, Wash.— Poet and essayist Mary Karr,
author of
the best-selling memoirs “Liars’ Club”
and “Cherry,” will present a reading of her works
Thursday, Sept. 14, on the Whitman College campus. Karr garnered
critical acclaim for her vivid and often humorous portrayal in
“Liars’ Club” of her deeply troubled
1960s childhood growing up in a gritty, industrial section of East
Texas. She followed that with the equally successful
“Cherry,” about her late adolescence and early
womanhood. She will speak at 7 p.m. in Kimball Theatre, Hunter
Conservatory, corner of Park and Boyer, on the Whitman College campus.
Her presentation, sponsored by Whitman’s Visiting Writers
Reading Series, is free and open to the public. Please call 527-5156
for more information.

A controversial figure in the American poetry
“establishment” due to her Pushcart award-winning
essay “Against Decoration,” Karr has published four
books of poetry and has received literary acclaim for her work from
Time, The New York Times, The Washington Post and the San Francisco
Chronicle.